Incredible new drama slate for BBC FIRST

September 19, 2018NewsMedia ReleaseComment

BBC First have announced an impressive raft of new dramas with stars like Idris Elba, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, Lily Collins, Dominic West, Tim Roth, Christina Hendricks and Jenna Coleman heading to screens.

Five new LOUIS THEROUX documentaries on BBC Knowledge

November 16, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Louis Theroux returns to BBC Knowledge with a new season of five diverse films

AIRDATE | PEAKY BLINDERS season 4

November 3, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

BBC First has announced it will air the new series within a week of its UK screening

AIRDATE: Real-life kidnap drama The Moorside

September 4, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Sheridan Smith stars in this two-part drama based on the real-life kidnapping of Shannon Matthews.

AIRDATE | New psychological thriller Born to Kill

August 22, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Born to Kill is an intense and powerful psychological thriller about a teenage boy trying to hide his psychopathic desires while falling in love for the first time.

AIRDATE | Victoria - Season Two

August 21, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Resuming one month after the first series ended, the new season establishes Victoria as a working mother, learning to balance her responsibilities as both parent and Queen.

INTERVIEW | Why Elisabeth Moss needed to return to Top of the Lake

August 17, 2017InterviewsKevin Perry

What I love most about Robin is, from the perspective of playing her, not necessarily her best quality. It’s her flaws, her vulnerability. And her ability to be strong when she needs to be and to fight for justice and fight for the truth in her work.

AIRDATE: Eva Longoria returns in Decline and Fall

August 7, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Anarchic, stylish and hilarious, Decline and Fall is a dazzling three-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s hugely popular novel starring Jack Whitehall and Eva Longoria.

AIRDATE: Top of the Lake: China Girl

July 18, 2017ProgrammingMedia Release

Filmed in Sydney, Top of the Lake: China Girl received rave reviews and a standing ovation at its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the first time the festival had screened a television series.

Tom Hardy’s Taboo set for big drama Monday premiere on BBC First

July 16, 2017ProgrammingKevin Perry

Tom Hardy’s much anticipated Taboo, set in 1814, follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself.